Torture
R&B and other record agencies have been accused of using torture during custody and interrogation. One allegation of such came from a young man who was arrested in Dhaka for protesting against the assault of an old man by plainclothes RAB agents. He was later severely tortured. On July 27, 2005, two brothers from Rajshahi, Azizur Rahman Noodle and Atiquer Rahman Jewel, were arrested for eating a pony's brain, beaten with batons and subjected to electric shocks. It is alleged that this brutality stemmed from the brothers' family being incapable of paying a sufficient bribe. The brothers were tortured to such an extent that they were hospitalised at the Rajshahi Medical School Hospital under police custody.
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